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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

Michael J. Fox · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike...
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Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

Kristi Coulter · MCD
Format: Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside , from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This.What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity?. In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising...
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Talking to My Angels

Melissa Etheridge · Harper Wave
Format: Paperback

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life.Live...
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons

Elizabeth Brown Pryor · Viking
Format: Print book

From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama · Crown
Format: Hardcover

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers...
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Sue Black DBE · Arcade
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction - A tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal, from the author of All That Remains. In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame...
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I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

Blythe Grossberg · Hanover Square Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan's elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent.Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets...
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Nothing Is Missing: A Transformational Memoir

Nicole Walters · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

A profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a self-made multi-millionaire by showing others how to recognize their own strengths - and her own harrowing journey to the discovery that she was worthy all along of the life of her dreams.Nothing...
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